Medical Cannabis March – the election special!

Patients, caregivers and supporters of safe legal access
to natural affordable cannabis will march down Queen Street
in Auckland, this Saturday 2nd September. The
Government's recently announced changes for
cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive ingredient of cannabis, will
take effect the following Thursday 7th September.

Doctors
will no longer require special permission to prescribe
cannabidiol products. However there are no authorised
cannabidiol products for doctors to prescribe, and patients
will not be able to import their own even if they have a
prescription.

March organisers believe the changes do not
go far enough, and criminalisation remains an
issue.

"Patients need easy, safe and affordable access to
natural medical cannabis," said Chris Fowlie of NORML NZ.
"These are steps in the right direction, but it'sa herb
anyone could grow at home."

Auckland Patients Group leader
Pearl Schomburg will call on the Police Commissioner, Mr
Mike Bush, for a moratorium on medicinal cannabis patients
and their supporters "until the unjust laws upholding
cannabis prohibition are altered to reflect good science,
medical studies and the will of the people as shown by
numerous current polls."

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